Oregano is more than a delightful culinary herb used in pizza. It is a valuable crop in your survival garden. Oregano is beautiful, drought-tolerant, attracts beneficial insects, is a powerful culinary herb, and is a valuable medicinal herb. Adding oregano to your diet will improve your health and adding oregano to your garden will increase its health also.
In today’s video, I will dig up oregano from my kitchen garden and transplant it into our new front yard edible landscape. It will provide beauty and food for many years to come.
My apologies for the sound in this video. It was a windy day!
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My apologies for the sound in this video. It was a windy day!
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Oregano is like mint. If you don't confine it, it will take over everything. It also stays green over the winter here in the Ozarks. I have a plant(more like a bush) that has been growing for more than 10 years now. Very hardy.
Your enthusiasm + knowledge is powerful! I use oregano already and now will plant it. Free of microbes, chemicals & heavy metals too, when we grow our own. After one goes to seed I'll seed collect too.
You are the herb queen!
I really enjoy having my herb garden, which includes oregano. For several years now, I have been dehydrating my herbs and using them on their own and in mixes (Italian seasoning, for example) for culinary purposes. The quality is so good with homegrown and less expensive. My favorite edible… I sort of like them all.😊
Great video keep up your great 👍 videos.I will get some planted so I don't have to buy it at the store.
May GOD BLESS 🙏 YOU AND YOURS
Your oregano looks fantastic! Thanks for demonstrating how to transplant it 🙂
Great to learn about Oregano, thank you Kylene. Your place is looking great, good to see you have terrific helpers. Happy trails!
We have so much oregano and basil 😂
Do you ever forage edible wild plants/"weeds"?
my favorite? oh tough call… lavender is right up there… probably mint, because i LOVE mint, but it does want water so its not a dry garden crop. lemon balm (mint relative) is also right up there
as a reminder to the newer folks (i know Kylene knows this) plant things by their habits and needs. lavender, oregano, and similar herbs and flowers all like full sun and tolerate dry conditions (most of the Mediterranean herbs do) if you plant a "please keep me damp" plant next to a "please keep me in the desert" plant… well… one of them is going to suffer.
there are edible (and gorgeous) fruiting bushes that tolerate dry full sun… there are a large number of herbs that do… and many "edible in an emergency" flowers and etc
Also if you can have a slope, or a rain ditch (swale) so that the area goes from "dry" (top of hill/uphill or further form the water hose) to wetter (down hill, next to the swale, under a drip irrigator) you can mix those wetter and dryer plants… but it takes planning
oh! thing i only learned recently… "oregano" is technically a flabor, not a plant. there are several plants called "oregano" that are not THAT closely related! i did not know that!
Oregano- and many other herbs- also come in more decorative versions. i have golden and also variegated oregano in my front yard. i have so many decorative varieties of sage, and the versions of thyme… but the golden oregano or variegated plants can contrast nicely against otherwise darker mulch or plants, and if you have plain green oregano you may want to get a lighter or variegated lavender (YES there is a striped leaf lavender)
DO check, however, as some of the "fancy " versions may not tolerate cold or heat as well- but many are just as hardy!
there is also "hot and spicy" oregano, which intimidates me….
(sorry for spamming your comments, i keep thinking of more to say the instant i hit "enter")
Egyptian walking onions!
About 40 years ago I bought my first house, a small bungalow in an urban setting. Everyone had lawns, so I left lawn in the middle and planted roses along the edge of yard near sidewalk, then in the part of edging area I planted tomatoes 🍅. Big meaty ones that didn’t squish when you cut them. I had no idea what I was doing, but I tomatoes all summer long. A few years back I moved across town into a condo & have a 10’x6’ raised bed in the nearby community garden on a weird strip of land purchased from the railroad, who took up tracks, ties, & gravel. (I wish more communities would do this). Last year ginger didn’t grow well in my micro-climate near the Bay. However, a friend has been successfully growing in north facing planters outside her apt Thai Ginger, a slightly milder version of Ginger compared to what we Americans typically buy in the store. So I am trying to carefully compost some soil for planters to go along my north facing walkway so I can grow what looks like a nice bush, but is flavorful Thai ginger. Not quite your front garden, but what we can do 3 or floors up from ground level. 🙃☕️🫖
Hi Kylene. I never thought to use herbs in my landscape. I like that idea. One edible we have incorporated into the landscape is……Roseof Sharon! We heard that the flowers can be used in salads, on pizzas, dehydrated, used in teas. So we planted a bunch of them along the fence line. Fortunately, a friend was looking to remove some from his yard so we traded some squash for the bushes. They're starting to fill in nicely.
You've encouraged me to move my monster to the front yard.
We love growing and using sage, oregano, thyme, chives, lavendar, lemon balm, lemon grass, aloe, rosemary, mint, garlic, elderberry and currents. We also grow comfrey (external use only, but the chickens love to eat it), echenecia, rose hips, monarda and calendula for healing salves. These plants are tucked in all over our property…front yard, pots, orchard and garden, really anywhere theres an empty space.
My favorite edible plant to grow is raspberries. I pick the leaves to dry for herbal tea, then the berries for jam and cobbler. My favorite plant to forage is plantain. My grandma taught me more than 60 years ago if I got stung or scratched, to chew some plantain and slap it on the sore spot! I was my first try at making salve.
What type or variety oregano? Local greenhouse has Italian, Greek, and "pizza" but none of them look like yours.
Figs are easy to grow here in NC and bear reliably for me every year. (Every other year is a much larger harvest.)
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! Really appreciate the edible garden/food forest info!!